SHP621S - SETTLEMENT HISTORY AND PLANNING THEORY - 1ST OPP - NOV 2022


SHP621S - SETTLEMENT HISTORY AND PLANNING THEORY - 1ST OPP - NOV 2022



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nAmlBIA UnlVERSITY
OF SCIEnCE Ano TECHnOLOGY
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION
QUALIFICATION: BACHELOR OF TOWN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
QUALIFICATION CODE: 07BTAR
NQF LEVEL: 6
COURSE CODE: SHP621S
COURSE NAME: SETTLEMENT HISTORY &
PLANNING THEORY
DATE: NOVEMBER 2022
PAPER: THEORY
DURATION: 3 HOURS
MARKS: 100
EXAMINER(S)
FIRST OPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER
N Korrubel
MODERATOR: J Gold
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Answer ALL the questions.
2. Read all the questions carefully before answering.
3. Number the answers clearly
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QUESTION 1
Report the critical requirements, as well as the other requirements, for the urban revolution. (8)
[8]
QUESTION 2
Answer only ONE of the following two questions. Provide a heading to indicate which one your
answer refers to.
A] Discuss the urban form determinant Topography.
(5)
OR
B] Identify five locational determinants, the underlying reasons for the existence of
settlements on their sites. Answer in full sentences.
(5)
[S]
QUESTION 3
Discussany TWO of the following three urban form determinants. Provide the necessary
headings for your answers:
a)
Pre-urban cadastre
(3)
b) Aggrandizement
(3)
c)
Defence
(3)
[6]
QUESTION 4
a) Describe the urban form of one of the earliest civilizations' urban settlements, namely Ur
(Mesopotamian Civilization). Your answer must focus on the three basic parts/components
and can include a sketch with explanatory legend (2-3 marks per component).
(7)
b) For additional marks identify three significant differences between the two urban forms of
Ur (Mesopotamian Civilisation) and Mohenjo-Daro (Harappan Civilisation).
(3)
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QUESTION 5
Report the important significance of the Egyptian town Kahun in urban history.
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(2)
Kahun was constructed in three parts; comprising of the large mortuary temple, pyramid (not
appearing on sketch, east of the temple) and the town, see Figure 1.
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Source: The Dark Side of a Model Community: The 'Ghetto' of el-Lahun
David Mazzone, http://egyptian-architecture.com/JAEA2/JAEA2_Mazzone
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QUESTION 6
Answer only ONE of the following two questions. Provide a heading to indicate which one your
answer refers to.
Discuss the following basic elements of the typical Greek City:
A] The acropolis, the leisure and cultural areas.
(8)
OR
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B] The agora and the residential district.
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(8)
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QUESTION 7
In order to impose and maintain their authority the Romans built thousands of castra. Describe
the castra.
(4)
[4]
QUESTION 8
a) Describe the typical imperial urban planning of Roman settlements. Your answer must refer
to the general principles (urban planning principles) and practice of Roman town planning.
(10)
b) The urban form of Venta Belgarum (as illustrated in Figure 2), deviates from the typical
imperial urban plan (your answer provided in Question B(a)). Identify three deviations from
the typical imperial urban plan.
(3)
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ROJl,\\AN WINCH.ESTER.
AD,43-410.
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Figure 2: Venta Belgarum (Roman Winchester)
Source: "Roman Winchester A.D. 43-410," drawn 1909, from Wm. Thorn Warren, Notes from the
History of Winchester (Winchester and London, 1914), folding map facing the title page
https ://bril I.com/view /book/ ed coll/9789004421899 /BP000004.xm I#
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QUESTION 9
Discuss the following two urban form components of the city of Rome.
a) Sewers and water supply
(3)
b) lnsulae
(3)
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QUESTION 10
Describe the various locations of the market area in medieval towns (both organic-growth and
planned new towns).
(8)
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QUESTION 11
a) Frederick Law Olmsted is viewed as one of the founders of modern landscape architecture
and integrated urban design. Identify his pioneering contributions towards the urban
environment.
(2)
b) F.L. Olmsted repeatedly appealed to the political and economic leadership of American cities
to create parks that would achieve a whole range of public benefits. Report some of the
benefits he reasoned it would have.
(4)
[6]
QUESTION 12
Explain Howard's famous concentric-ring diagram, as illustrated in Figure 3.
(10)
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(Source: R.T. LeGates & F.Stout (editors), (2011), The City Reader (fifth edition), The Routledge
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QUESTION 13
Answer only ONE of the following two questions. Provide a heading to indicate which one your
answer refers to.
A] Howard's second project (Welwyn Garden City), demonstrates the limits of the "social city"
concept. Discuss the limits of the physical realisation of Howard's "social city".
(4)
OR
B] Le Corbusier developed his principles of planning most fully in "La Ville Contemporaine" and
"La Ville Radieuse". The key to these principles was the famous paradox. Describe Le
Corbusier's famous paradox.
(4)
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QUESTION 14
Describe Le Corbusier's Contemporary City/"La Ville Contemporaine", as illustrated in the
provided sketch, Figure 4 (Note that only ½v for an answer referring to percentage will be
allocated).
(10)
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(Source: R.T. LeGates & F.Stout (editors), (2011), The City Reader (fifth edition), The Routledge
Urban Reader Series, London, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, p339).
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TOTAL
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